Why Can't We Call it What it Is?...Killing Babies

My heart has been especially troubled lately that we kill babies in our country. I have heard that the number is close to 1 million per year. We kill 1 million babies every year. We are not forced to do it. It is our "choice." And I have been guilty, along with the rest of the Church, of being disturbingly silent. In our hearts we feel sorrow. The Spirit of God testifies to our spirit that a great injustice is being done. We know, regardless of what anyone else says, that this is a valuable little child created in the image of God. Yet we still remain silent. We probably think to ourselves, "That's just the way it is." Our culture becomes increasingly confused by words that are designed to mask the truth rather than to reveal it. "Medical procedure," "abortion," "terminating the pregnancy," "sexual privacy," and "civil rights," are a few. Why can't we just call it what it is?...killing babies.
There have been other injustices in our nation's history; things that, looking back, seem absurd. About 150 years ago white American people owned African people as slaves. I'm sure there was some sort of logical argument behind it. I'm sure there was language that made it seem just and right to the culture. Maybe some argued that the slaves weren't really people. Others probably focused on the rights and freedom of the slave owner. I'm sure some argued that it would be too expensive to the nation to allow all of these people to live free lives. And I wonder if some even argued that it would be cruel to let the slaves go free. After all, life as a slave is all they knew. They couldn't possibly make it in a world so difficult.
In the midst of all of the debate and rhetoric, I wonder if there were Christians who looked at slavery with discontent, yet remained silent. Perhaps they read their Bibles and recognized that there was a great injustice taking place. But maybe they said to themselves, "That's just the way it is." Maybe they even talked to each other about how horrible slavery was. And maybe it eased their conscience a little to tell someone, who already agreed with them, that slavery was bad.
But there were other Christians who were bold enough to call slavery what it was to people who needed to hear the truth. They penetrated through the rhetoric and revealed the injustice. They did not let their own comforts and fears render them impotent. Rather, they realized that God had commissioned them to glorify Him by fighting for justice. It was a passion for the Glory of God as displayed in the Justice of God that finally abolished slavery (if not clearly in the U.S. then clearly in Great Britain of whom the U.S. followed suit).
I want to be a disciple of Christ that is not content with saying, "That's just the way it is." I don't want to be ruled by my comforts or fears. I don't want to ease my conscience by just talking about the injustice of abortion to people who already agree with me. And I want to be a believer who will be bold enough to call it what it is...killing babies.